Green | November 17, 2009 | 7 comments

Solar cooker comes of age

source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55OFdg6Jbr8&feature=sdig&et=1258174949.21

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For centuries, many peoples around the world have had to gather bundles of firewood for cooking ... a process that not only produces carbon emissions but has a significant effect on health.

Smoke and fumes cause respiratory diseases killing an estimated 1.6 million people a year worldwide.

But as the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference approaches, one Norwegian inventor believes he has refined a simple technology that could have a major impact for ordinary people, their environment and the world. It's called the Kyoto Box.

Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons reports.

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I think that deforestation has a lot to do with droughts, it certainly results in desertification in many parts of the world.

What I like about these solar cookers, apart from the fact that they spare trees, do not emit carbon nor produce smoke and fumes that are bad for the health, they also liberate the women from the strenuous job of finding and gathering firewood, having to go further and further afar to do so, thus taking up a great deal of the women's time and energy.

Solar cookers plus simple solar stills in the Rift Valley of Kenya (where ground water is usually brackish) would solve a great deal of problems for the people living there.
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7 comments // Solar cooker comes of age // Video

  • jubal
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      jubal  

    • Good news for a change in this depressing world. This story should give us all hope in what people can do to change the status quo.

    • 2 years ago
  • aquamammal
  • jjhalp
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      jjhalp  

    • This guy is definitely not the inventor. The US Peace Corps was training village extension agents in Africa during the 1980's in this technology. It wasn't adopted at the time because there was still enough trees to cut down for fuelwood. As deforestation progress and population increases, people in rural, developing countries will have no choice but to use ideas such as this.
      It is a great invention and I hope he succeeds, but its not his idea.

    • 2 years ago
  • wolfinsheepsclothing
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      wolfinsheepsclothing  

    • hmm... i don't know about this guy calling himself the "inventor." like 20 years ago we used to make these in cub scouts and cook meals in them. just aluminum foil and an old wine box. they work great. but hardly a new idea. we also had a version that used charcoal if the sun wasn't out. you just needed a tin can or something to put coals in.

    • 2 years ago
  • JanforGore
  • ii386
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      ii386  
    • JanforGore:

      Well the cardboard won't spontaneously ignite under normal sunlight conditions, especially with the aluminum foil covering it. Pasteurization occurs at about 160F and i'm positive a nice day can get it above that. its so easy to do I'm going to build one this summer and test it out.

    • 2 years ago
  • pjacobs51
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